The chairman of the Macedonian party VMRO-DPMNE, Hristiyan Mickoski, expects the Bulgarian caretaker government PM, Dimitar Glavchev, to explain what concessions Bulgaria has made to North Macedonia.
Mickoski said that he does not believe that the Treaty of Friendship and Good Neighborliness with Bulgaria is the "real process" of the accession of the Repuic of North Macedonia to the European Union.
He replied to Glavchev, who explained on May 9 that Sofia would not make any more concessions to Skopje:
“We'll go about our tasks here and wait and wait for someone sane to talk to. I don't see what Bulgaria has given up on. A bilateral treaty being part of a negotiating framework is precedent. Good neighborly relations are something different and are determined by international criteria," Mickoski added.
"I don't see why it is scary to have another annex to the Agreement with Bulgaria, in which we can see what principles we will present and what we will enter into these talks with. With a concept like the current one, we have no intention of supporting it," Mickoski also said in an interview with Channel 5.
He asked for a clear plan to make this process "real".
"We have no clear plan other than bare rhetoric that we should trust them (the EU)," Mickoski said, adding: "But gentlemen, we have trusted you for more than 20 years."
When reminded by the presenter that the EU requires changes to the constitution, the VMRO-DPMNE leader replied: "Okay, but that will happen immediately after we enter the EU. And now let's talk about what we're going to do from this point on.”
VMRO-DPMNE will not accept ultimatums from Brussels.
Mickoski emphasized that he is "the first who wants to see his country in the EU" and specified: "I do not accept ultimatums with which the Macedonian people will pay for the mistakes of some unreasonable politicians."
The leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristiyan Mickoski indicated that his party will secure a parliamentary majority of 61 deputies by May 28. The main coalition partner will be the previous Albanian opposition "Vredi" of Arben Taravari.
BGNES reminds that VMRO-DPMNE inflicted a heavy loss on the hitherto ruling Social Democratic Union (SDSM) in the parliamentary vote. Mickoski's formation will have 58 MPs in the 120-seat Macedonian National Assembly.
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, nominated by VMRO-DPMNE, won the presidency by a huge margin against the previous president Stevo Pendarovski from SDSM.
Siljanovska will be sworn in on May 12. In all probability, her first decree will be for the handing over of a mandate to form a new Repubkic of North Macedonia government - to Hristiyan Mitskoski. /BGNES
